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we go where you send us, and that's why you have us. we hope that there's noblity in the mission and somehow we are justified and when we are found not to be, and the movement for ten years -- i don't think anyone thinks that iraq was the right decision to make now, or a year after we were there. but we stayed there for ten years. >> i think vice president and secretary rumsfeld probably still think we should be there. >> for some people it was great idea. but the truth being, i voted and then i went to iraq. and there i was. and it mo longer -- like i said, we were kind of above politics in our hopefulness, and below politics in our utility. we weren't actively a part of the mechanism in a way which felt like this -- we had a hand in our fate. so, when i was there, i went back in 2005, to ramadi. by that point we knew we were wrong but my marines are being sent, and to not go was intolerable to me, and returning is when everything went wonderfully in terms of seeing my child, but terribly in losing my parents and losing friends thought
we go where you send us, and that's why you have us. we hope that there's noblity in the mission and somehow we are justified and when we are found not to be, and the movement for ten years -- i don't think anyone thinks that iraq was the right decision to make now, or a year after we were there. but we stayed there for ten years. >> i think vice president and secretary rumsfeld probably still think we should be there. >> for some people it was great idea. but the truth being, i...
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but where does that kind of leave us? what do you sort of see in terms of detroit 100 years from now -- [inaudible] i'm not asking for a prescription. it's more like here we are, kind of had this big? i'm not asking you to paint a picture as much a sort of lake wonderware status what it is -- why we are here. why many of us sort of get up in the morning. >> yeah, i think that's a good question. we talked a little bit about this earlier, the idea of my fear of bulldozing and paving over some of that history. i think you and i might have talked about this once. frances is another person i interviewed at the boat. he's been active in the preservation movement here. the industrial history of detroit is, you know, it is a significant part of 20th century american history. the way that we look back, preserved, you know, some of the ruins in rome and greece. so i don't think we want to lose that. as far as what it becomes, i have no idea. [inaudible] my question is, you know, i love detroit. and from here he moved back. i'm in l
but where does that kind of leave us? what do you sort of see in terms of detroit 100 years from now -- [inaudible] i'm not asking for a prescription. it's more like here we are, kind of had this big? i'm not asking you to paint a picture as much a sort of lake wonderware status what it is -- why we are here. why many of us sort of get up in the morning. >> yeah, i think that's a good question. we talked a little bit about this earlier, the idea of my fear of bulldozing and paving over...
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you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> one of the things you learn he you read about children with alcoholics and people in that kind of family dynamic is that a child like bill clinton begins to feel like he has the responsibility of bringing healing to that family, of redeeming it, of creating honor where there's dishonor. and he's so, he basically sets out to be the person who's going to rescue and redeem the family. he is an incredible student. he's front of his class. he becomes very active in boys' nation which is kind of a junior american legion. gets nominated to go to washington as the quote-unquote boys' nation candidate for u.s. senate. goes to washington. he's already six feet tall. he strides to the front of the line when they go to the white house to see president kennedy, and then when kennedy finishes his speech, bill clinton lopes forward and gets his picture taken with, alongside of john f. kennedy. he's so proud. he's so proud. and he already is dedic
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thanks for joining us. the question of whether and how government, particularly the federal government, directs tax dollars to specific industries was a discussion in last night's presidential debate, and it's become an important and ongoing theme in the current presidential campaign. the term on which washington assisted the finance and auto industries have also been the focus of intense debate, but probably the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana furchtgott-roth, manhattan institute senior fellow, and our speaker this afternoon, focuses in her time and important new book, "regulating to disaster: how green jobs are damaging america's economy." in it, she subjects the assumption and policies which led to such a faded federal investments as solyndra solar panel manufacture as was that a 123 collector car battery manufacture to a waiting analysis which we of the institute have come to expect from this oxford trained economist who served as chief of staff for the council of economic advi
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my first question is tell us why did you in less? what drives you as a teenager to become a member of the women's royal naval service? >> guest: i was sent to the west coast when the war broke out. it was 1938 with war in 1939. we were very a vulnerable. there were bombings but my parents sent me to the west coast with an elderly alkyl who was a naval officer. his son was in france when they collapsed in his other son committed suicide because he lost all of his money in the financial crisis. by live with him for about one year and he would ride his bicycle in the morning looking for food. he was very strict and i said he will not let me out. because he was such a naughty playboys he knows what can happen to the girls. [laughter] so he listed me to go to the imperial hotel for the pilots. if had been taken over for rehabilitation for the pilots with the battle of britain for car was 17. i was leaning up against the door thinking can i do this looking at all of these men with huge bandages santos figuration. there was one young man wh
my first question is tell us why did you in less? what drives you as a teenager to become a member of the women's royal naval service? >> guest: i was sent to the west coast when the war broke out. it was 1938 with war in 1939. we were very a vulnerable. there were bombings but my parents sent me to the west coast with an elderly alkyl who was a naval officer. his son was in france when they collapsed in his other son committed suicide because he lost all of his money in the financial...
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that should let us take a few extra steps. man is inconsistent that but to see it as inconsistent you have to read but i think privilege is not a religion over religion but they said we will find all of the organization's except the religious one. that was overturned why should religions. so i prefer that to. but if you want to set the with me if you read the law you find out if but what they want to get that they give them everything except masquerade traditional money but there are reasons that we need to have been someplace except for the burqa of course. that is inconsistent but the backdrop of the idea we will decide the french way to do things and he then if they have ideas ascots book they will not get that but the opposite results. >>. >> her for early chicago used to have an ordinance against appearing in public with the mask but that was directed at the ku klux klan klan but i am interested in polygamy teasing reynolds vs. u.s. been a hit among the mormons was a good law and will ever be overturned? >> fact is an int
that should let us take a few extra steps. man is inconsistent that but to see it as inconsistent you have to read but i think privilege is not a religion over religion but they said we will find all of the organization's except the religious one. that was overturned why should religions. so i prefer that to. but if you want to set the with me if you read the law you find out if but what they want to get that they give them everything except masquerade traditional money but there are reasons...
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up but they will have two use use the taxes that the soviets use against us in 1930s and 40s. in fact as you go on the msha and i would challenge you that, google with the left said about challenges to the infiltration of islamic terrorism into america. what what you find his is ridiculed. you will recall when several members of congress raised the issue of hillary clinton's top aides mullah of the dean having islamic connections and that in fact told me that you cannot even get the question of infiltration by islamic7 terrorism into american institutions passed and we are basically saying yes in the time of alger hiss. comments? >> anti-communism was considered rude, prudish, disrespect double and facts members of the rotary for example would raise that point. national view -- -- national review was anti-communist. >> there were differences i would say and one is that the case was made during the 1930s and 1940s certainly that communism was good for america and we have this wonderful ally in uncle joe stalin. you can't make the case that al qaeda is good for america. and nob
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has always looked at libya as something of a strange creature that we could use with for certain -- use for certain, as a piece of a strategy that had to do with the region as a whole. it was never really looked at as an object -- the relationship was never seen as an object in and of itself. um, you know, it could start off with the relationship with the soviets, the eisenhower doctrine and the united states' desire to push back. libya was desperately pleading for u.s. attention back then, for aid to get itself together to be able to, you know, to stand on its own feet. this was before the discovery of oil. and the u.s. kind of took a, well, you know, you're really not as important as egypt, for example, and, you know, we'll think about it. and the result was that the prime minister at the time, you know, basically devised a plan to court the soviets and see if he could grab the united states' attention. and that happened. the next, you know, major event was the libya's and gadhafi's successful bid to change drastically the way that oil pricing was conducted by squeezing the independen
has always looked at libya as something of a strange creature that we could use with for certain -- use for certain, as a piece of a strategy that had to do with the region as a whole. it was never really looked at as an object -- the relationship was never seen as an object in and of itself. um, you know, it could start off with the relationship with the soviets, the eisenhower doctrine and the united states' desire to push back. libya was desperately pleading for u.s. attention back then, for...
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send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> it was almost two years ago that i decided it was time to write a fact-based primer on gay rights specifically targeted to right-of-center voters. hence the subtitle of the book. to do two things. number one, to challenge the religious right on its own you are the and to show that much of what is derisively or what they derisively call the gay agenda is actually consistent with fundamental republican and libertarian principles. and, number two, to show center-right voters who believe in social tolerance that not only are they not a voice in the wilderness, they actually represent a majority of rank and file republican voters. so the book has three major themes. the first one i just alluded to, that many on the right simply don't understand that properly understood gay rights are, in fact, perfectly compatible with fundamental republican principles of limited government, individual rights and equal protection under the laws. the essence of the classical liberal or libertarian philosophy is simply one of live
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we ask you to tell us about that. so i'd like you to tell us about that. [laughter] >> true confession, the guilty love is mine. and although it is unfashionable too confess love for the oil industry, i must say that in the process of researching and writing and living this book, i have become captivated by the extraordinary ambition of a wager that the oil industry makes every day, which is the incredible bet against nature that consistencies of walking up to what to all the appearances looks like an empty baron piece of real estate and figuring out that anywhere between 1,000 and 5,000-feet down, there's rock. by the way, i don't know if you have ever actually seen the rocks that oil comes from. it's amazing. you -- you would walk by on the street and never look twice. gray rock. it's very dense. it looks about as hard and dry as anything as you can imagine. and yet inside the microscopic pore -- i'm not talking about shale now. i'm talking about regular sand stone. the shale is even tougher and tighter. inside there unbelievable belie there are these mi
we ask you to tell us about that. so i'd like you to tell us about that. [laughter] >> true confession, the guilty love is mine. and although it is unfashionable too confess love for the oil industry, i must say that in the process of researching and writing and living this book, i have become captivated by the extraordinary ambition of a wager that the oil industry makes every day, which is the incredible bet against nature that consistencies of walking up to what to all the appearances...
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they could not use them without the permission of the owner. they codified a slave as private property and had to live with that. can you imagine slaveholders were mortgage to their eyeballs. not interested in sending slaves out to build forts with 20,000 other slaves to of the were talking about that the war was about, the eagle, what it meant to have a powerful ally like the united. one of the engineers said that slaves to like to do this work and know they don't like to for personal reasons "they also know that they don't like to do it because they don't want to do in the labor that will 40 union who they see is fighting for their investigation. one of the things i love it, the stories the the most interesting , launching the psychology of slaveholders changed. these are people who are so accustomed to thinking of slaves as human beings of a sort, but once a desire has no meaning. just instruments of business and will to some extent. from the minute lincoln is elected they start noticing the difference in the behavior of slaves on the planta
they could not use them without the permission of the owner. they codified a slave as private property and had to live with that. can you imagine slaveholders were mortgage to their eyeballs. not interested in sending slaves out to build forts with 20,000 other slaves to of the were talking about that the war was about, the eagle, what it meant to have a powerful ally like the united. one of the engineers said that slaves to like to do this work and know they don't like to for personal reasons...
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fair use. and you can run through four factors, but the bottom line, this is hard to figure out in many cases. but some cases are clearer than others. in the cases where large amounts of material are being used semester after semester after semester not paid for if any amount no matter how long the length, that becomes an issue for copyright, for copyright owners and for both the, both for the publishers and for the authors. and that is the gist of why that case was brought and why it is still continuing. our view there was that whatever fair use means, it doesn't mean that everything is free, it doesn't mean that there is a difference, a fundamental difference between printed material and digital material, and it doesn't mean there's a fundamental difference between a private college and a state-run university. the latter we actually did succeed on at the lower level. the second area i'll talk about is kurt's thing, this first sale doctrine. and i've seen some critics say, you know, this is an
fair use. and you can run through four factors, but the bottom line, this is hard to figure out in many cases. but some cases are clearer than others. in the cases where large amounts of material are being used semester after semester after semester not paid for if any amount no matter how long the length, that becomes an issue for copyright, for copyright owners and for both the, both for the publishers and for the authors. and that is the gist of why that case was brought and why it is still...
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you can tweet us us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or or send us an e-mail. booktv,en in fiction books -- nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> we don't know whether franklin roosevelt ever heard about florence greenberg's unprecedented call for health care as a right, because even though he had endorsed the conference, he chose that time to go on vacation. fdr was actually on a cruise. i guess we can't really blame him, it was probably a pretty well-deserved vacation. but three years earlier fdr had refused to include medical coverage as part of the social security act because he did not want to an tagtize the american medical profession. he did send a message of support to the health conference, but not long afterward the outbreak of world war ii forced the president's attention elsewhere. five years later on january 11, 944, in his state of the union address roosevelt spoke to the american people about the war and especially about the kind of peace the allies planned to establish after the defeat of fascism. he said that the one supreme objective f
you can tweet us us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or or send us an e-mail. booktv,en in fiction books -- nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> we don't know whether franklin roosevelt ever heard about florence greenberg's unprecedented call for health care as a right, because even though he had endorsed the conference, he chose that time to go on vacation. fdr was actually on a cruise. i guess we can't really blame him, it was probably a pretty well-deserved vacation. but...
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i went to the library where he had used. so we would never forget why the unabomber's bombs come sometimes e-mail to somebody they weren't there anymore. but he always had a return address is on elsie didn't like. so the bomber go back. so i had to know why were these things misaddressed excite go to dislike her one room i forgot about as big as this room. and that go to the reference section, all the books were one or two years out. ibn going to this little library and writing down the professors and the geneticists he wanted to get rid of the. and again, a connection with berkeley. i like that because i had 100 days to write the book. i just simply immersed myself. i saw the letter that kaczynski's brother wrote to the lawyers thing we noticed similarities. i got a copy of the rough draft of the manifest. i like to do that. so as far as i know the next book was somebody else did a book on them. it was like six or seven years, and it was about his time at harvard. it's all too. i wanted everybody there's -- get everybody th
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sizing to chapter is very useful and believe it is the longest chapter? of only focus on those in the two issues. after 2001 taliban were routed left in shame and defeat and the people of afghanistan will come back. out haida fled and said -- to clear the hide and i assume it had the same position calling with the infidel in the foreign occupiers and they asked me to lew steady cantar to grapple with what was happening i came to a different conclusion than i originally thought. in short, after 2001 the taliban quipped. it quit wholesale. i mean those that constitute the insurgency had quit and tried to engineer the deal with the afghan government. i dug up a quote that the pakistan a cleric's try to drum up support and say we need to send many to fight the occupiers. but to this is from a very high-ranking person who's said we want to tell the people the taliban system is no more. they should not give any more donations. the government is established we will not launch any action against it. on one lovell is surprising that looked at afghan history over 3
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so they even used the english translation. again, you see the society operating in whole of the vessel this is an important part of the african side of the story. the other thing that i thought was especially crucial was what happened in jail. our emphasis on the court room not only blinded us to some extent to the rebellion but to what was happening in jail. what was happening in jail was that you had african rebels and american abolitionists meeting face-to-face and trying to figure out how to cooperate. this was an important moment. nothing quite like this had never happened before. they have to build an alliance if they're going to effectively fight the institutions of slavery. well, what i have identified as the crucial process among the africans was basically to go back to something that is frequently discussed in the slave trade, and i talked about this quite a bit. they have come up with a term called selective can share. they create relationships of can and act as if they are related to people. this is going on on the
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where does that leave us and south asia? here the latter two-thirds of the piece i discussed in some detail how it leaves us with an under appreciation of the need to rethink our strategy going forward in south asia. almost a year ago i finished this piece and i argued in three areas for the wider region for afghanistan and for pakistan. the proper understanding of the schism between the taliban aspirations and al qaeda's make it important for us to adjust the way in which we view moving forward with a endgame in afghanistan which i argue should be an interim game. here's the point i make and i will update them briefly before i think things are just ever adapted specifically with them last year. the war in afghanistan needs to be reconsidered and has always been viewed and indian circles and that is as a pakistani supported rebellion in afghanistan that tajik uzbek governments with significant blanks in new delhi and tehran and only pashtun representation in the form of president hamid karzai who is mistrusted mpac hamid kar
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and have used that founding -- and i think it's very predictable that people are going to use whatever is rhetorically powerful to ground their arguments. but i think that collectivization of the minds of america's founding fathers is particularly dangerous because as i say so often in the book, presenting them as such tends to dramatically oversimplify the politics of the founding generation. and it comes to be used as a big battering ram to beat people over the head with in ways that i think our rhetorically incoherent and rhetorically on them. >> host: who won america's right-wing are you talking about? >> guest: i started with glenn beck and as a matter fact, i determined i was going to write this book about 15 minutes after i ran into glenn beck's translation of the federalist papers, the original argument that was in our supermarket and i kind of went around and i said to people, can you believe this? glenn beck has translated the federalist papers and almost everybody said, what's wrong with that? i said well, they are in english. they don't need to be translated. and people did
and have used that founding -- and i think it's very predictable that people are going to use whatever is rhetorically powerful to ground their arguments. but i think that collectivization of the minds of america's founding fathers is particularly dangerous because as i say so often in the book, presenting them as such tends to dramatically oversimplify the politics of the founding generation. and it comes to be used as a big battering ram to beat people over the head with in ways that i think...
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so with these behind us let me turn the comparative perspective on abraham lincoln. like seward and chase, lincoln's ambitions are forged early in life even as a child historian douglas wilson has written ki duty with fresh from those around him, he was unusually gifted and had great potential. his ambition led him to memorize the stories he heard listening to his father took to the adults at night and then the next day the tree stump to entertain his juvenile friends. the invention led him to scour the countryside to books to read every spare moment and leave home where he worked as a clerk, postmaster, survey year to keep the body and soul together as he engaged in a systematic self improvement mastering english grammar, newspapers, history, determined to study law on his own. at the same time, politics had a deep hole on him when he ran for the state legislature at this d age of 23 he put out a statement which was a dream he would carry to his day to prove himself worthy to be held in great regard, to win the duration and respect of every man is set to have a pecu
so with these behind us let me turn the comparative perspective on abraham lincoln. like seward and chase, lincoln's ambitions are forged early in life even as a child historian douglas wilson has written ki duty with fresh from those around him, he was unusually gifted and had great potential. his ambition led him to memorize the stories he heard listening to his father took to the adults at night and then the next day the tree stump to entertain his juvenile friends. the invention led him to...
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when he decided to use his ph.d. in history at columbia command was difficult. ammine, the family was very badly. took some kind of medial secretarial work because they cannot really afford a babysitter all-time. and howard did various mid time shifts in order tab of more money to the pot. they were centrally very poor and get howard did fix -- succeed in getting his doctorate in fairly short order. >> host: his first permanent academic appointment was the long term appointment. >> guest: he taught while earning his ph.d., but his first full-time appointment was at stillman. >> host: maybe you can come in moving them to the south, that seems to be where he first got involved in civil rights activity. what was going on at the time and how did howard find himself in the middle of a lot of civil-rights politics? >> guest: in atlanta, and even though atlantis is seen certainly today as one of the less racist spots in the son of, in fact it was almost totally segregated when he arrived. but, by the way, he made sure that people never thought that he took a job that a
when he decided to use his ph.d. in history at columbia command was difficult. ammine, the family was very badly. took some kind of medial secretarial work because they cannot really afford a babysitter all-time. and howard did various mid time shifts in order tab of more money to the pot. they were centrally very poor and get howard did fix -- succeed in getting his doctorate in fairly short order. >> host: his first permanent academic appointment was the long term appointment. >>...
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. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is author and professor stephanos bibas whose new book, "the machinery of criminal justice," is published by oxford university press. professor bibas, do we have an efficient criminal justice system? >> guest: we've got a system tahas moved from what people expect it to be, a public morality play where we blame and punish and then reintegrate people who do wrong and heal victims to one that's been taken over by the lawyers. we have professionals who have maximized the speed of the system. it's hurried plea bar gaining that disposes 19 out of 20 cases. it's cheap, but it's bargained-for justice, and so the victims have no say, defendants feel like they've copped a plea or gotten away with something, and the public wonders why is this about a deal rather than a ringing jury trial and a verdict? we've become very busy in the last two centuries from before this nation was founded criminal justice was about right and wrong, pain and blame and apologies and healing. and we have too many criminal cases, and so the lawyers have just sped things up by p
. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is author and professor stephanos bibas whose new book, "the machinery of criminal justice," is published by oxford university press. professor bibas, do we have an efficient criminal justice system? >> guest: we've got a system tahas moved from what people expect it to be, a public morality play where we blame and punish and then reintegrate people who do wrong and heal victims to one that's been taken over by the lawyers. we have...
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roosevelt, and they were working together to try to fix the race problem, which was just as much with us in 1901 as it is today. and they were partnering to try to bring right minded people into government, and they would get together and have these political conversations. one day roosevelt said, why can't i invite a critique to join me for dinner and mix business with pleasure? it was an innocent invitation, and it unleashed just an incredible outpouring of indignation from all over the world. because it had never happened before. >> was the president's schedule always public? how did people find that the dinner was happening? >> the president is scheduled was always public and it was covered by some lowly journalist who probably hated this job. it was his job to report that roosevelt had lunch with so-and-so, or a meeting with so-and-so. and the dinner took place in the evening, and at about midnight, the journalist look at the president's schedule, and probably rubbed his eyes because he saw that booker t. washington had dined with the president. the news went out on the wire, and it
roosevelt, and they were working together to try to fix the race problem, which was just as much with us in 1901 as it is today. and they were partnering to try to bring right minded people into government, and they would get together and have these political conversations. one day roosevelt said, why can't i invite a critique to join me for dinner and mix business with pleasure? it was an innocent invitation, and it unleashed just an incredible outpouring of indignation from all over the...